Evolution

The finding fills in a gap of scientific knowledge for a prehistoric behavior of an iconic lizard Credit: Illustration by...

From Brazil’s Amazon, researchers report ‘spooky interactions’ among surface- and cave-dwelling electric fish, revealing shocking behavior of 300 blind cavefishes...

Credit: © Antoine Balzeau – CNRS/MNHN Was burial of the dead practiced by Neandertals or is it an innovation specific...

Research reveals earliest flight-related moulting strategy in 150-million-year ancient bird Credit: Kaye et al. 2020 Flying birds moult their feathers...

Credit: LE Gilbert A link between evolution over short time frames (microevolution) and long time frames (macroevolution) that could open...

Credit: David Sischo GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The island of Nihoa, a slice of jagged rock that juts out of the...

Researchers in Japan have found, for the first time in vertebrates, a genetic switch that determines whether germ cells become...

Although music perception and practice are well preserved in human evolution, the biological determinants of music practice are largely unknown....

A duel between mathematical models supports the reigning theory of the genetics of altruism It isn’t that often that a...

A frog in Ecuador's western Andean cloud forest changes skin texture in minutes, appearing to mimic the texture it sits...

Lungfish and salamanders can hear, despite not having an outer ear or tympanic middle ear. These early terrestrial vertebrates were...

A massive international effort to sequence and compare the entire genomes of 48 species of birds, representing every major order...

A University of Utah study of two African tribes found evidence that men evolved better navigation ability than women because...

Only 8.2% of human DNA is likely to be doing something important – is 'functional' – say Oxford University researchers....

Cancer has left its 'footprint' on our evolution, according to a study which examined how the relics of ancient viruses...

Like salmon traveling upstream to spawn, sperm cells are extremely efficient at swimming against the current, according to research to...

The human body produces chemical cues that communicate gender to members of the opposite sex, according to researchers who report...

In a world perfumed by freshly popped popcorn and exhaust fumes, where sea breezes can mingle with the scents of...

Simply making nanoparticles spin coaxes them to arrange themselves into what University of Michigan researchers call 'living rotating crystals' that...

One of science's strongest dogmas is that complex life on Earth could only evolve when oxygen levels in the atmosphere...